gay rights
Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized
By David Crary, Mariam Fam, and Edna Tarigan — December 6, 2022
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — LGBTQ people routinely are rejected by their families, denounced by Islamic authorities and limited to clandestine social lives.
Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on campuses – and courts are deciding
By Charles J. Russo — December 6, 2022
(The Conversation) — Yeshiva University’s legal case has garnered national attention, but several similar cases are underway.
Orthodox Judaism can still be a difficult world for LGBTQ Jews – but in some groups, the tide is slowly turning
By Orit Avishai — December 6, 2022
(The Conversation) — Orthodox Jewish communities are still difficult places for many LGBTQ people. Yet the view, once ubiquitous, that Orthodox tradition is incompatible with their identities is gradually shifting.
LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges
By Yonat Shimron Of Religion News Service and Giovanna Dell'orto Of The Associated Press — December 5, 2022
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP/RNS) — Tensions endure at many of the hundreds of US Catholic and Protestant universities.
At Lambeth, Anglican Communion abandons vote on same-sex marriage
By Catherine Pepinster — August 3, 2022
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — 'The issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a struggle in our time to the one over race,' said Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Rev. Gil Caldwell, United Methodist civil rights and gay rights activist, dead at 86
By Adelle M. Banks — September 8, 2020
(RNS) — Caldwell said his application to Duke Divinity School was rejected in the mid-1950s because of his race. He visited the campus some 60 years later.
Religious conservatives have lost LGBTQ rights battle. It’s time to surrender.
By Thomas Reese — June 25, 2020
(RNS) — Jesus recommended negotiation when the odds are against you, and St. Thomas Aquinas said legislating morality is a losing proposition.
Kenyan court upholds bans on gay intimacy
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 24, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – A ruling in favor of repeal would have been a trailblazing step for an Africa court, but the three-judge bench said there was not sufficient evidence of discrimination.
Pizzeria ordered to pay $4,500 for booting gay rabbinical student
By Paul O'Donnell — February 27, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Though Israel is considered a bastion of gay rights, the case cast a harsh light on this religiously conservative capital's sometimes ugly treatment of LGBT people.
Religious freedom advocate Charles Haynes: ‘It’s not a choice’
By Adelle M. Banks — October 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — First Amendment scholar, to be honored after retiring from the Freedom Forum Institute’s Religious Freedom Center, talks about the state of religious freedom and his private faith.
Conservative faith leaders worry Kenya will repeal ban on gay sex
By Fredrick Nzwili — April 6, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — While few are actually imprisoned under the law, it has been used as a justification for harassment, violence and discrimination against gay people — at the hands of police, but also relatives who believe a gay person shames a family.
Justices won’t step into Mississippi gay rights legal fight
By Lauren Markoe — January 9, 2018
(AP) — The Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in a legal fight over a Mississippi law that lets government workers and private businesspeople cite their own religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people.
AG’s religious objection order undercuts LGBT protections
By Lauren Markoe — October 6, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an order that undercuts federal protections for LGBT people, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies Friday (Oct. 6) to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated.
US court lifts injunction on Mississippi law seen as anti-LGBT
By Reuters — June 22, 2017
(Reuters) Opponents said they will likely seek to overturn the decision, arguing that the measure, backed by Christian groups, allowed for sweeping discrimination.
Republicans in Congress push Trump for religious liberty executive order
By Eliza Collins — April 25, 2017
WASHINGTON (USA Today) More than 50 GOP House members want the president to fulfill a campaign promise to scale back Obama-era protections for gays and lesbians. The White House says it's complicated.
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